Ministers have snubbed a proposal to call the Queen Elizabeth the Faithful in the way England’s Saxon king is known as Alfred the Great.
The plan was put forward by former Tory party treasurer Michael Farmer to make our longest reigning monarch “stand out in the sweep of history”.
And Lord Farmer added: “It has useful ambiguity, as it’s directed both to God and country - work still in progress.”
He asked the Government to bring in legislation so ‘Faithful’ could be added to the Queen’s title.
But that would have meant an amendment to the 1953 Royal Titles Act and Cabinet Office minister Lord True told him: “The Government has no plans to make a change.”
He was backed by Labour peer Jenny McIntosh who said: “Additions to the titles of our sovereigns have tended to be post hoc rather than during the lifetime of the person in question.”
Lord True said: “The unfortunate title of King Ethelred the Unready, who died in 1016, was brought in only in the 1180s.”
